At the Corner of Hip Hop and Feminism
Joan Morgan
Thursday, 23 Feb 2006 at 7:30 pm – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, ISU Center
Joan Morgan has written extensively about music and gender issues for Madison, Interview, MS, More, and Spin magazine, where she was contributing editor and columnist. Formerly the Executive Editor of Essence, she is the author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost. She was a staff writer at Vibe magazine for three years, and her work appears in numerous college texts, as well as books on feminism, music and African-American culture. Part of the National Affairs Series on "Defining Values in American Politics."This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
Cosponsored By:
- African American Studies
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Miller Funds
- Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communicati
- National Affairs
- VPSA
- Women's Studies
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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